Response

Crew members in blue jumpsuits stared at computer screens that revealed their hidden target miles below: a powerful atmospheric river that was churning across the Pacific Ocean toward California.

"It's going to be very cold," said Hunter Tubbs, a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Gray. "People should stay inside or dress for the weather. It can definitely be dangerous if you're not prepared."

In December, the National Hurricane Center’s forecasters begin reviewing hurricanes from the past season — where it tracked, how strong it was, how long it lasted and the destruction it caused.

U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-3, announced the $977,333 in funding through the FEMA's Assistance to Firefighters grant program, which will provide mobile, portable, and base radios for the departments.

The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program in Cheyenne, Wyo., connects people with substance use disorders with health-care workers so that police don’t have to continue to arrest the same subjects over and over.

The agency has refused to fund a stretch of the Cosumnes River for years, saying the barriers do not meet the criteria for intervention because they were not built to meet the agency’s standards.

Together, they worked on digging a trench from their backyard, which was already brimming with more than 2 feet of water, to their front yard to keep the house from flooding. They used an electric pump and managed to keep the water at bay.

The initial quake was reported at 2 a.m. A magnitude 3.5 struck just three minutes later, followed by a magnitude 2.8 at 2:22 a.m. and magnitude 2.6 at 2:38 a.m., the USGS said.

The 72-year-old man told police in Hemet, a small city east of Los Angeles where he lived in a trailer park, that family members had tried to poison him many years earlier. He also claimed to have been the victim of fraud and theft.

The researchers found, on average, participants correctly identified their codes 44% of the time. The best known codes were for fire, infant abduction and cardiact arrest.

It’s a common occurrence for the center’s clinician program, a pilot project that’s put licensed mental health clinicians alongside dispatchers to defuse and divert some of the area’s emergency calls.

The relatively new and potentially dangerous phenomenon of chemicals from wildfire smoke finding their way into water systems is occurring after ‘high severity’ fires, and scientists are just now learning about it.

South Dakota’s new Telemedicine in Motion program mitigates a critical shortage of experienced paramedics by connecting a doctor or nurse via video and audio to the paramedic in the back of the ambulance.

The dispatcher came home to the aftermath of the long-running dispute between her husband and suspected shooter Matthew Rushie, 46, who turned himself in to police at the 49th Precinct stationhouse accompanied by a lawyer after six days on the run.

“The President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency."

“We’re not going to force them. We’re not going to drag them out of their houses,” said Sgt. Juan Valencia, public information officer for the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. “But if there’s an order, we recommend people leave.”

“When I arrived in June, each shift was down seven members just to get to the minimum level needed each day,” Glynn County Fire Chief Vincent DiCristofalo said at a roundtable discussion with county officials on Tuesday.

The Sacramento area started to see early signs of recovery Monday after a New Year’s Eve storm breached levees, overflowed rivers and triggered evacuations across the region. But light rain returned in the afternoon.